An apparent rebel attack on a key power line on Sunday plunged around 80 percent of Pakistan into darkness, the latest reminder of the country’s crippling energy crisis. The power failure, one of the worst Pakistan has experienced, caused electricity to be cut in ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda told the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting that it will take time before structural reforms in Japan begin to produce positive effects. Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his “Abenomics” reflationary policy mix two years ago, the ...

Britain’s Prince Andrew on Thursday publicly denied for the first time allegations that he had sex with an underage teenager. The 54-year-old royal, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son and fifth in line to the British throne, has faced increasing pressure to respond to the ...

Wealth accumulated by the richest 1 percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said on Monday, ahead of the annual meeting of the world’s most powerful in Davos, Switzerland. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply ...

Japan’s culture wars are heating up to the detriment of the nation. The Financial Times is right to warn that the jingoism of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and attempts to stifle public debate, are grave threats to Japan’s open society. Most Japanese don’t want ...

Did the frozen-food poisoner have some obscure notion of "justice" in mind? Might it have been his way of saying to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, "Japan is not back; Japan won't be back until working for a living does not entail the sacrifice of ...

Japan and the United States have agreed to continue to work closely on speedily concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks, trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi said after meeting Saturday with the U.S. trade chief on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

Afriend asks via email: “Did you see the video of Abe in Davos?” I hadn’t. So I did. Many thanks to the friend for some highly toe-curling and blood-curdling entertainment. Much effort must have gone into achieving that overall effect. Gripping as the performance ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron was on Friday to insist that the “re-shoring” of jobs from countries such as India and China could be a key factor in spurring European economic growth. Cameron was to tell the World Economic Forum being held in the ...

In a charm offensive to the global political and business elite Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani set lofty ambitions for his country, including becoming one of the world’s top 10 economies. The first Iranian leader in a decade to visit the World Economic Forum, ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Thursday tried to play down the significance of overseas reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe compared the current tension between China and Japan to that of Britain and Germany right before World War I, saying Abe wasn’t stressing ...